Rolling paper for assembling a smokeable item

ABSTRACT

A rolling paper includes a paper that is configured to encapsulate a smokeable ingredient to form a smokeable item. The rolling paper includes an adhesive disposed on a first portion of the paper, and that is configured to adhere the first portion of the paper to a second portion of the paper to permit the paper to encapsulate the smokeable ingredient and form the smokeable item. The rolling paper includes a removable strip disposed on the adhesive.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/589,790, filed on Nov. 22, 2017, the contents of which are incorporated by reference in their entirety.

BACKGROUND

A user may utilize a rolling paper to assemble a smokeable item, such as a cigarette, a cigar, and/or the like. For example, the user may place a smokeable ingredient on the rolling paper, and manipulate the rolling paper to encapsulate the smokeable ingredient.

The user may then wet a water-activated material of the rolling paper to permit a first portion of the rolling paper, that includes the water-activated material, to adhere to another portion of the rolling paper. For example, the user may lick the water-activated material to permit a portion of the rolling paper to adhere to another portion of the rolling paper, thereby potentially securing the smokeable item within the rolling paper.

Such a technique is often times unsanitary because the technique requires the user to physically lick the rolling paper, thereby introducing the rolling paper to germs and/or other viral agents. Further, such a technique often times inadequately seals the rolling paper, and/or causes excessive wetting of the rolling paper. As such, the user may be required to discard the rolling paper, re-attempt to roll the smokeable item, discard smokeable ingredients, and/or utilize further smokeable ingredients. This can prove to be frustrating to the user.

Another technique is to use a wetting device that moistens the water-activated material. However, this technique requires that the user separately carry the wetting device and, as such, often proves impractical.

SUMMARY

According to an aspect of the disclosure, a rolling paper includes a paper that is configured to encapsulate a smokeable ingredient to form a smokeable item; an adhesive disposed on a first portion of the paper, and that is configured to adhere the first portion of the paper to a second portion of the paper to permit the paper to encapsulate the smokeable ingredient and form the smokeable item; and a removable strip disposed on the adhesive.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram of an example rolling paper with an attached strip as described herein;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of an example rolling paper with an attached strip being removed as described herein; and

FIG. 3 is a diagram of an example rolling paper with an strip that is removed as described herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Some implementations described herein provide a rolling paper having an adhesive and a strip. The strip may cover the adhesive and may be removed (or manipulated) to expose the adhesive. In this way, some implementations described herein reduce a need of the user to lick the rolling paper and/or use a wetting device. Thereby, some implementations described herein improve the cleanliness of smokeable items, obviate the need to use a wetting device when assembling smokeable items, improve the sturdiness of smokeable items, reduce an amount of time associated with assembling smokeable items, among other benefits.

FIG. 1 is a diagram of an example rolling paper with an attached strip. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, a rolling paper 100 may include a strip 110, and a paper 120. The rolling paper 100 may be configured to assemble a smokeable item.

The paper 120 may be configured to encapsulate a smokeable ingredient to assemble a smokeable item. For example, the paper 120 may encapsulate tobacco to assemble a cigarette. It should be understood that implementations described herein are applicable to any type of smokeable ingredient that may be used to assemble any type of smokeable item.

The paper 120 may be comprised of any suitable material for assembling a smokeable item. For example, paper 120 may be comprised of flax, hemp, sisal, rice straw, esparto, ethylene vinyl acetate, and/or the like. The paper 120 may include a shape and/or dimensions suitable for assembling a smokeable item. For example, paper 120 may include a rectangular shape, an oval shape, a square shape, a circular shape, and/or the like. Further, the paper 120 may include any suitable dimensions for assembling a smokeable item.

The strip 110 may be configured to adhere to an adhesive 130, as described elsewhere herein. For example, strip 110 may adhere to an adhesive 130 to prevent the adhesive 130 from prematurely and/or inadvertently adhering to the paper 120, from adhering to another rolling paper 100, from adhering to another object, and/or the like.

The strip 110 may be comprised of any suitable material for adhering to an adhesive 130. For example, the strip 110 may be comprised of polyethylene, paper, and/or the like. The strip 110 may include any suitable shape and/or dimensions for adhering to an adhesive 130. The strip 110 may include a shape and/or dimensions that correspond to a shape and/or dimensions of an adhesive 130. In this way, the strip 110 substantially covers the adhesive 130 during non-use of the rolling paper 100. Alternatively, the strip 110 may include a shape and/or dimensions that are different from the adhesive 130. In any event, the strip 110 may substantially cover the adhesive 130 during non-usage of the rolling paper 100.

The strip 110 may be completely adhered to an underlying adhesive 130. For example, the rolling paper 100 may be in a state shown in FIG. 1 during transport of the rolling paper 100, before usage of the rolling paper 100, and/or the like. Put another way, the strip 110 may be completely adhered to an underlying adhesive 130 such that the underlying adhesive 130 is not exposed, such as to prevent inadvertent adherence to paper 120 and/or other objects.

As shown in FIG. 2, the rolling paper 100 may further include an adhesive 130. The adhesive 130 may include an adhesive layer disposed on the paper 120, and the adhesive 130 may be configured to adhere to the paper 120. For example, the adhesive 130 may adhere to the paper 120 to secure and adhere a portion of the paper 120 to another portion of the paper 120 after manipulation of the paper 120 by a user. In this way, the adhesive 130 permits a smokeable ingredient to be securely encapsulated by the paper 120.

The adhesive 130 may include any type of adhesive suitable for adhering to the paper 120. For example, adhesive 130 may include a polymer, a resin, a gum, and/or the like. The adhesive 130 may be disposed on the paper 120 such as to form any suitable shape and/or to include any suitable dimensions. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the adhesive 130 forms a substantially rectangular shape.

The adhesive 130 may be disposed on any portion of the paper 120. For example, and referring to a horizontal axis shown in FIG. 2, the adhesive 130 may be disposed across an entire portion of paper 120. As shown, the adhesive 130 may be disposed to extend from a left end of the paper 120 to a right end of the paper 120. In other words, a width of the adhesive 130 may be equal to a width of paper 120. Alternatively, the adhesive 130 may be disposed across a subset of the paper 120. For example, a portion of paper 120 that includes adhesive 130 may include a width that is different than a total width of paper 120. As examples, the adhesive 130 may partially extend across paper 120 in the horizontal direction, may be disposed in a middle of paper 120, and/or the like.

The strip 110 may include a width that is commensurate with that of the adhesive 130. For example, the strip 110 may be configured to completely cover the adhesive 130, and thereby may have a corresponding width in the horizontal direction.

The adhesive 130 may be disposed across a subset of the paper 120 in the vertical direction. For example, and as shown in FIG. 2, the adhesive 130 may extend from a top end of the paper 120 to a vertical location of the paper 120 that is less than an entire vertical length of the paper 120.

While FIG. 2 depicts the adhesive 130 as being disposed at a top end of the paper 120, and extending from a left end to a right end of the paper 120, it should be understood that the adhesive 130 may be located at other locations of the paper 120 in other implementations.

The paper 120 may include multiple portions with the adhesive 130 and/or the strips 110. For example, the paper 120 may include separate portions that include respective adhesive 130 and/or strips 110. In other words, the adhesive 130 may be disposed on separate portions of the paper 120. As an example, a first adhesive 130 may be disposed across a top edge of the paper 120, and a second adhesive 130 may be disposed across a bottom edge of the paper 120.

As further shown in FIG. 2, the strip 110 may be removed from the paper 120. For example, the rolling paper 100 may be in a state shown in FIG. 2 during usage of the rolling paper 100 by a user. For example, a user may remove the strip 110 from the paper 120 to expose the adhesive 130.

As shown in FIG. 3, the strip 110 may be completely removed from the adhesive 130 and/or the paper 120. For example, the rolling paper 100 may be in a state shown in FIG. 3 when a user removes the strip 110 to permit assembly of the smokeable item.

In this way, the adhesive 130 may be completely exposed, thereby permitting the paper 120 to be manipulated to encapsulate a smokeable ingredient of the smokeable item, and permitting the adhesive 130 to secure the paper 120 to permit usage and/or transport of the smokeable item.

While FIG. 3 depicts the strip 110 as being completely removable from the paper 120, it should be understood that the strip 110 may be partially removable in other implementations. For example, the strip 110 may be configured to be partially removed from the paper 120 to expose the adhesive 130.

The rolling paper 100 may be used as follows. Before, or after, placing a smokeable ingredient on the paper 120, the user may interact with the strip 110 to expose the adhesive 130. The user may manipulate the paper 120 to encapsulate the smokeable ingredient. For example, the user may roll the paper 120 so as to encapsulate the smokeable ingredient. After rolling the paper 120, the user may cause the adhesive 130 to adhere to the paper 120 to secure the encapsulated smokeable ingredient. For example, the user may adhere a portion of the paper 120 to the adhesive 130 to secure the encapsulated smokeable ingredient.

In this way, some implementations described herein permit a user to assemble a smokeable item without requiring that the user lick the rolling paper 100, without requiring that the user use a wetting device, and/or the like. In this way, some implementations described herein improve cleanliness of smokeable items, reduce a number of situations where a user over-wets, or under-wets, the rolling paper 100, and/or the like.

The number and arrangement of components shown in FIGS. 1-3 are provided as an example. In practice, the rolling paper 100 may include additional components, fewer components, different components, or differently arranged components than those shown in FIGS. 1-3. Additionally, or alternatively, a set of components (e.g., one or more components) of the rolling paper 100 may perform one or more functions described as being performed by another set of components of the rolling paper 100.

The foregoing disclosure provides illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the implementations to the precise form disclosed. Modifications and variations are possible in light of the above disclosure or may be acquired from practice of the implementations.

Even though particular combinations of features are disclosed in the specification, these combinations are not intended to limit the disclosure of possible implementations. In fact, many of these features may be combined in ways not specifically disclosed in the specification.

No element or feature used herein should be construed as critical or essential unless explicitly described as such. Also, as used herein, the articles “a” and “an” are intended to include one or more items, and may be used interchangeably with “one or more.” Furthermore, as used herein, the term “set” is intended to include one or more items (e.g., related items, unrelated items, a combination of related and unrelated items, etc.), and may be used interchangeably with “one or more.” Where only one item is intended, the term “one” or similar language is used. Also, as used herein, the terms “has,” “have,” “having,” or the like are intended to be open-ended terms. Further, the phrase “based on” is intended to mean “based, at least in part, on” unless explicitly stated otherwise. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A rolling paper, comprising: a paper that is configured to encapsulate a smokeable ingredient to form a smokeable item; an adhesive disposed on a first portion of the paper, and that is configured to adhere the first portion of the paper to a second portion of the paper to permit the paper to encapsulate the smokeable ingredient and form the smokeable item; and a removable strip disposed on the adhesive.
 2. The rolling paper of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the paper is horizontally disposed across a top edge of the paper.
 3. The rolling paper of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the paper extends across an entire width of the paper.
 4. The rolling paper of claim 1, wherein the removable strip is configured to prevent the adhesive from adhering to the second portion of the paper during non-use of the rolling paper.
 5. The rolling paper of claim 1, wherein a first width of the first portion is equal to a second width of the paper, and a first height of the first portion is different than a second height of the paper.
 6. The rolling paper of claim 1, wherein the adhesive comprises at least one of polymer, a resin, and a gum.
 7. The rolling paper of claim 1, further comprising: another adhesive disposed on the second portion of the paper. 